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Che Path o’ Life 



Carrie Jacobs-Bond 

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have a little tale to 
tell 

(And hope ‘twill 
do some good). 
It’s ‘bout a couple of 
young folks 
A-walkin* through 
a wood. 

They started off ‘bout noon time, 
Some fifteen years ago, 

To journey down the “Path o* Life”; 
Just how, they didn’t know. 




About the time these two set off, 

Another pair set out; 

The same Church-door they left 
behind, 

Their hearts all strong and stout. 
They all walked down the “Path 
o’ Life’*, 

And then’twas clear and bright, 
And looked as though for miles to 
come 

’Twould all be straight and right. 


Of course this weddm 
(I guess) 

Was near the first o June; 

The time o’ day—again I say— 
Came pretty nigh to noon. 

And if you take life in its Spring 
And just about midway, 

This world is bound to look real good 
And things look bright and gay. 

'Jfr 



That’s just the time for weddin's, 
when 

The birds are singin* sweet, 

And violets are cornin’ up 
To kiss the fern leaf’s feet— 
But, ’nough about the weather 
And the flowers a-bloomin* gay; 
I must tell you ’bout my couples 
Startin’ off this weddin* day. 


That “Path o’ Life” looked 
pretty smooth 
About a year or two, 

And then the weeds began to 
come 

Where once the sweet flow’rs 
grew. 

One pair o’ them walked hand in 
hand, 

Altho* the path grew rough; 

He helped her over all the stones 
And she called love enough. 

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The other two? Well, I must 
tell: 

Their hands loosed on the way, 
And their paths widened as they 
walked 

And clouds came every day, 
And all because they didn’t know 
That burdens shared by two 
Will always lighten fully half 
If hearts are strong and true. 


And so my couples wandered 
on— 

On down the “Path o* Life”; 
One pair caught all the sunshine— 
God called them “man and wife”. 
My other pair are lost to sight, 
Their forms no more I see— 
Lost somewhere on the “Path ’o 
Life”, 

For they could not agree. 



When stones were rough, she 
would complain 
And, answerin’, he would say, 
“Just come along, now, Mary Ann, 
You helped to make the day 
When we this journey undertook; 

I’ve done the best I could; 
Come, hurry up and catch me now, 
It’s dark here in this wood.” 




And so she wanders on alone; 

(He thinks he’s bein’ kind:) 

But by and by he finds, alas! 

That Mary’s far behind. 

And then he wonders where she is, 
And what she’s doin’ now; 

And as he thinks how they have 
walked, 

A frown comes on his brow. 



And then he wonders how it is 

This world for him is cold, 

And lightnin-like a thought comes 
in— 

Why, he is growin* old; 

And that smooth path he once 
called “life" 

All full o’ briars has grown, 

And that companion he called 
“wife" 

Is lost, and he’s alone. 





' That you don’t need just now, 
But I would like to say a word 


To smooth each wrinkled brow. 
Just grasp the hand that’s in your 
path— 

Sometimes the path is long— 
And life is sweeter when you have 
Companions, with a song. 

Kind words smooth all the “Paths 
o* Life” 

And smiles make burdens light, 
And uncomplainin* friends can make 
A day-time out o’ night. 





James 
G i 1 r a y 
C annom 


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